JewCal Privacy Policy
Summary
JewCal is a native iPhone and Android Hebrew-calendar, zmanim, and reminder app. It has no account, no developer-operated server, no cloud sync, no advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no billing.
Data kept on your device
JewCal stores the information needed to provide its features in the app's local storage:
- calendar events, calendars, and reminder choices that you create or import;
- display, language, diaspora, and notification settings;
- an optional saved place name, coordinates, and time zone used for zmanim and reminders.
This information is used only by JewCal on your device. We do not receive a copy of it.
Location
Location is optional. You may select a city from JewCal's bundled offline catalog, or grant location permission after you choose Automatic. JewCal uses the selected location to calculate zmanim, candle-lighting times, and reminders.
Manual city searches, time-zone lookup, and nearest-city matching are processed entirely on your device; search text is not transmitted. Automatic location uses a foreground-only, one-time request through the device's location services. On Android, this may be processed by Google Play services. On iPhone, Core Location may be processed by Apple; if no nearby city exists in JewCal's offline catalog, Apple's system geocoder may also resolve the place name and time zone. JewCal does not request background location, operate a location server, or send location data to a server that we control.
Notifications and alarms
JewCal requests notification permission only to show reminders you enable. It uses Android alarms or iOS local notifications to schedule event, holiday, prayer, candle-lighting, and Jewish-day reminders. Notification text is generated on your device.
Import, export, backup, and sharing
JewCal reads calendar files only when you select a file to import. It creates or shares an export only when you choose that action. An exported calendar can contain event titles, dates, descriptions, and reminder details. Once you save or share an export, the destination app, service, or recipient handles that copy under its own practices.
A full JewCal backup contains app settings, the saved location name, coordinates and time zone, calendars, events, and reminder choices. JewCal creates or restores a backup only after you explicitly choose the file. Backup files are not sent to JewCal or to a developer-operated server. You control where they are stored and who can access them.
Data sharing
JewCal does not sell, rent, or share your calendar data for advertising, profiling, or analytics. The only external processing described in this policy is the optional use of platform location services, and Apple's system geocoder fallback on iPhone, when you choose automatic phone location.
Retention and deletion
Local data remains on your device until you delete it in JewCal, clear its app storage where the platform provides that option, or uninstall the app. Exported calendar and backup files are outside JewCal's local storage and must be deleted from the place where you saved or shared them. Because JewCal has no account or developer-operated server, there is no server-side account or calendar data for us to delete.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy when JewCal's data practices change. The effective date above identifies the current version.
Questions: hello@jewcal.org